f36608s@puukko.hut.fi (Erik Bunn) (11/29/90)
I saw somebody mention a X-terminal emulator for pc's. Can anyone elaborate on this? We might consider getting these for four 386's connected to X-servers by Ethernet cables. On the surface it seems that this way we would get 4 dos work stations AND x-terminal emulation. The other option would be 4 X-terminals, which doesn't seem nearly as versatile. So: how fast/slow/good/bad/anything else would such an emulator be? Are they PD or commercial? Can someone tell me where to order or ftp one? Thank you; Erik Bunn I f36608s@puukko.hut.fi (Internet) I "You see, I missed her
py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung) (12/01/90)
In article <1990Nov28.191934.29319@santra.uucp> f36608s@puukko.hut.fi (Erik Bunn) writes: > >I saw somebody mention a X-terminal emulator for pc's. Can anyone elaborate >on this? We might consider getting these for four 386's connected to >X-servers by Ethernet cables. On the surface it seems that this way >we would get 4 dos work stations AND x-terminal emulation. The other >option would be 4 X-terminals, which doesn't seem nearly as versatile. >So: how fast/slow/good/bad/anything else would such an emulator be? >Are they PD or commercial? Can someone tell me where to order or ftp >one? > >Thank you; > > > > >Erik Bunn I >f36608s@puukko.hut.fi (Internet) I "You see, I missed her We are using PC-XVIEW on our 386SX. It works fine and can even use 800x600 (?) high res mode on cards/monitors that support it. You will need TCP/IP on your PC to connect to the LAN. We are using PC/TCP. You can also use Execlan with the on board TCP/IP software which will save you a lot of RAM space. I have also seen other similar products advertised in magazines like Byte and Unix World. One that come to mind is HCL-eXceed from Hummingbird. I cannot say much about speed since we are running xterm sessions only, no fancy graphics stuff. From what we have seen, it seemed that with a 16MHz 386SX, the bottleneck is the netowrk and the load on the host machine. With a 640K machine, we can open 3 to 5 xterm windows depending on the size of your window. If you use Execlan, you can definitely get more windows since the TCP/IP software is on the ethernet card. However, there is a version with can use protected memory above 1 Meg (we only have 1Meg :-( ). The addresses are: PC-XVIEW: Graphic Software Systems, Inc. 9590 SW Gemini Drive, Beaverton, Oregon 97005 (no phone numbers on manual) HCL-eXceed: Hummingbird Communications Ltd. 2900 John Street, Unit 4, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 5G3 (416)470-1203 Fax: (416)470-1207 PC/TCP: FTP Software, Inc. 26 Princess Street, Wakefield, MA 01880 (617)246-0900 -- Peter Yeung Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center 2000 Argentia Road, Plaza 2, Suite 300 Mississauga, Ont. L5N 1V8 Phone: (416) 542-6300 Fax: (416) 858-2233
rcdswal@dutrun.UUCP (Guus van der Wal) (12/04/90)
You might look also at products called X-vision from Visionware and TeemTalk-X by Pericom (UK) Both programs are full implementations of X11R4 and can be used with a number of TCP/IP products (including SUN'S PC-NFS). Works only on 286 386 and 486 CPU's wit at least 2MB extended memory. The programs come with easy installation menus and 3 disks full of fonts. X-vision needs MS-Windows as a graphics base Guus -- Guus van der Wal Computing Centre Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands USEnet: rcdswal@dutrun.tudelft.nl BITnet: rcdswal@hdetud1.bitnet